Boxing heavyweight Tyson Fury and his family were forced out of their £1.7million Morecambe mansion after a security scare that saw an intruder demand he was adopted.
It is understood that the former world heavyweight champion and his wife Paris – with whom he shares seven children – are now living in a six-bedroom £8million home close to the Isle of Man’s capital Douglas.
The family had previously lived in Morecambe, Lancashire, for 20 years, but are said to be ‘very fond’ of the Isle of Man.
The move coincided with Rachel Reeves’ tax-raiding budget, revealed in December, which targeted high earners which slapped a mansion tax on properties worth over £2million.
But the man himself has denied that is not why he moved. Instead, it was because of prank callers and intruders, with the ‘final straw’ someone scaling his 40-foot high gates and insisting Fury adopt him.
He said this week, ahead of his fight with Arslanbek Makhmudov: ‘Sometimes you can just be in a place too long and everybody knows where you live. I had to disconnect my intercom on the gates because every weekend I had crackpots and drunk people ringing the doorbell and asking for Tyson.
Tyson Fury was forced to move out of his Morecambe mansion due to intruders at the home
Fury and his wife Paris have now moved to the Isle of Man, but the move was seemingly not due to tax issues
‘The final straw was when I had a lunatic come over my gates, 40-foot gates and I’ve got an attack dog. I’ve got everything. The police came and he said: “I’m here to be adopted by Tyson and Paris (Fury’s wife)”.
‘The man was about 35-years-old and he was saying that we were going to adopt him. He was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas. When the police asked where he came from, he said London and that he was here to visit his father and mother. This man could have had a knife on him, or anything.’
Fury lived in the mansion, which featured on Netflix series ‘At Home with the Furys,’ with Paris and his seven children.
He often spends time away for camp when fighting, however – leaving Paris to look after the children alone for a number of weeks.
That can leave his pad vulnerable, he admitted.
‘I wasn’t home,’ he said of the incident. ‘I was at the gym and Paris phoned me going nuts and then it was actually one of our neighbours who saw someone climbing over the bins and she phoned the police.
‘But that wasn’t the only one. I’ve had a million nut jobs at my place. One time there was a guy and he was dressed in shells, all seashells – from head-to-toe – looked like an absolute lunatic. He said God sent him to speak to me.
‘But my manager Spencer offered him 20 quid and he grabbed it and vanished.’
Fury detailed how his family were confronted by a man who scaled their fence and demanded he adopted him
The boxer lives with Paris and his seven children, though leaves them for lengthy periods while he is in camp
Fury’s move was revealed after he changed his residency to the Isle of Man on Companies House documents.
Income tax rates in the self-governing British Crown Dependency are less than half of those in the UK with the higher tax rate set at 21 per cent compared to 40 per cent for higher rate taxpayers on the mainland.
But those earning over £125,140, such as Fury, it is set at 45 per cent.
The island has a ceiling of £220,000 on the amount of personal income paid by an individual each year. And perhaps most crucial for Fury, and his £160million fortune, there is no capital gains tax or inheritance tax on the Isle of Man.
